DUSHANBE, November 14, 2014, Asia-Plus — According to the Tajik MFA information department, the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman will pay an official visit to Tajikistan from November 25-27.
It will be the first visit of the President of the Czech Republic to Tajikistan.
According to data of the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, a two-way trade between Tajikistan and the Czech Republic over the first nine months of this year has valued at little more than 2.3 million U.S. dollars, which is 2 percent more than in the same period last year. This consisted of Tajikistan’s exports to the Czech Republic estimated at some 300,000 U.S. dollars and Tajikistan’s imports from the Czech Republic worth more than 2 million U.S. dollars.
Milos Zeman is the third and current President of the Czech Republic, in office since 8 March 2013. Previously he served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he transformed it into one of the country”s major parties. He was Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, from 1996 to 1998. In January 2013, Zeman was elected as President of the Czech Republic. He is the first directly elected President in Czech history; both of his predecessors, Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus, were elected by the Parliament.
